This would make a lot of sense - The Kipon adapter, while it works just fine imho, is still "just the Kipon adapter" - that is, since Fuji is making an M-mount adapter (we all knew this when the camera was announced) it would have to have some other benefits to it otherwise the Kipon adapter would just be the "Fuji" adapter but likely less expensive.

What I mean by this is; Fuji's m-mount adapter will likely cost a bit more money than the Kipon currently is priced at. Even now there's a knock off of the Kipon adapter floating around on Ebay at even less money than Kipon's are priced at! So, Fuji has to bring to the table something else other than the basic adapter - don't know what that will be but it's clear it will be something that may warrant people dumping the third party adapters to head towards Fuji's version.

Cheers,
Dave

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Short time ago I read (don't remember where) that Fuji is planning to position itself at same level of the 2 biggest japanese camera producers. Probably they cannot (or do not desire) compete on the same playground where competitors are already more or less well established and therefore they try an innovative way, a modern no rf no reflex camera, innovative sensor etc etc. Following this logic an "innovative" adapter like a smart adapter could be in the logic, which could also be the reason for which it took time to engineer and produce it.
Just my opinion, anyway even if I do not own an xpro1 (yet?) I'm sparing some money for a possible purchase...
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What I mean by this is; Fuji's m-mount adapter will likely cost a bit more money than the Kipon currently is priced at. Even now there's a knock off of the Kipon adapter floating around on Ebay at even less money than Kipon's are priced at! So, Fuji has to bring to the table something else other than the basic adapter - don't know what that will be but it's clear it will be something that may warrant people dumping the third party adapters to head towards Fuji's version.

Cheers,
Dave

Still my expectations! Together with an intelligent adapter Fuji could offer one or more of these half-baked ideas- Of course most of it requires a software update:

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1. Six-bit coding, reading the frameline lug position, or some way of transmitting a manually set focal length into the camera.

2. Output from a simple distance encoder (feeding the DOF scale). This does not seem tremendously likely given the shallow depth of a Leica to X adapter.

3. A way for the camera to know that an M lens is attached and to adjust the color shifts/vignetting/etc.

Or it could be all of them. Or none. The inclusion of an X-mount with contacts in the picture might just be a graphic design decision.

Dante

The other two are not that "exciting" however the #2; assuming they would employ a sort of transducer in the adapter to convert the focusing cam height into an analog drive signal to operate something similar to a rangefinder for example.. but they did not provide anything for it; no provision in the design, only a CDAF-circuitry with a confirmation signal in the finder.. (Weird..)

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